Williams v. State

Appellant, Lewis P. Williams, appeals the summary denial of his motion for post-conviction relief and the order denying his motion for rehearing. We affirm without discussion the summary denial of Appellant’s first, third, and fourth grounds, all allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel, but we reverse the summary denial of Appellant’s second ground.

In that ground, although he had stipulated that he had the qualifying convictions, Appellant nonetheless claimed that the trial court erred in sentencing him as a violent career criminal because the trial court impermissibly counted four…